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A royal visit to Blackburn. King George V and his entourage were here on 10th July 1913 to lay the foundation stone of the public halls...

The Bridge Inn at Mellor, with a nice advertisement painted on the gable for Whewell's High Class Ales & Special Nourishing Stout...

Looking towards the Preston New Rd area in the distance, from the bottom of Montague St, with the tower of Thomas Whewell's Brewery ...

  Looking south along King William Street from the corner of Exchange Street. It looks like people have always sat on the benches in th...

As you can see from the text, this is the Mellor Church Cricket Team in 1929. It's a photo from an old book I used to have from tha...

Looking along Higher Eanam towards the town centre, with the pitched gable of the Victoria Cinema dominant.  In the far distance, we ca...

  Looking along Richmond Terrace, towards Sudell Cross, from just below Victoria St, with the boundary wall of St John's Church to th...

  Looking along Darwen St and into King William St, with the junction of Church St to the right and Higher Church St to the left. The Old...

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